OBJECTS Geometry Jan Konůpek (1883–1950) Wallpaper design for Artěl, Prague, c. 1910 Gouache on paper; 44 x 28.4 cm The Vienna Secession movement influenced the ornamental creations of the younger generations of artists who graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Prague. Models adopted from the Biedermeier and Neoclassicism idiom inspired them to design ornamental patterns showing visual restraint, regularity, symmetry and an orthogonal network. Clean geometric forms, used after 1905 in graphic design by Jan Konůpek, Jaroslav Benda, V. H. Brunner and František Kysela, evoke rational beauty even as they provide a source of fantastic, irrational imagination.